Olly Moss

The wonderful creations of Olly Moss an English artist, graphic designer and illustrator, have been floating around the internet for a while, garnering attention from people with an eye for simple movie posters that encapsulate and capture their essence. Moss is new to the professional graphics scene, having graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2008, but he started designing tshirts for sale while studying and first made a stir when he won a tshirt design contest with a design that spoiled the major plot twists of famous movies.

Since then, he has gone on to design more t-shirts, movie posters and has even had a show at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. Paper cuts as it was titled, collected pop culture icons from movies and games as well as comics and reproduced them in the style of Victorian portraiture.  Here and there a splash of colour stands out to emphasize some part of the character, like the smile of the Joker from Batman. Moss’s work has been likened to that of Saul Bass, and he pays homage to him in some pieces, as well as Romek Marber, whose work he has riffed on for some of his video game posters, Justin Ishmael, Mondo’s creative director (who commissioned most of the movie posters) thinks “he has a lot more range. Only Moss does Moss.” (2011)